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Last week I went to a “limited” shooting range event showing off the new Canik Mete MC9 Prime 9mm medium sized pistol. No pictures were allowed- all very hush hush. This range said they were one of only 20 such ranges in the U.S. doing a preview of the pistol.…
Photo Credit: Glenside Local.comThe "Senior Assassin Game," or the “Paranoia Game” a long-standing tradition among high school seniors, has popped up again in Illinois this spring and Concealed Carriers should be aware teens “playing” at this assassin game in public and on private property can create potential deadly conflicts. Several…
Who is that U.S. Attorney General, and where has she been all my life? This week U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi put out an announcement on the U.S. Department of Justice website announcing the creation of a "Second Amendment Enforcement Task Force." “The prior administration placed an undue burden on…
Don't know if you saw this one slip through the news. Doubt it got much play in the big city medias.U.S. House Representative Richard Hudson, (R-NC) introduced a bill, HR 38 this season which, if passed through the long and twisted road of our legislative process, would recognize all state…
Found the same news story on a couple of outlets today proclaiming Chicago is the USA Homicide Capital for 13th straight year based upon 2024 numbers. 573 murdered human beings. Hey Jackass.com my go to source, said it was actually 610 killed here. Potato/Potato. Seems like a lot to me.Well…
Yesterday I receive at least two separate alerts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF&E). This is a rare thing and I thought maybe they were announcing everyone there saw the handwriting on the wall and were picking up the Trump/DOJ/OPM initiative to resign by today, or…
Photocredit: caniphish.com So I get a confused call from Adventure Wife this morning, about an email she got purporting to be from Docusign (an online service use to e-sign documents) about a Paypal payment to "your wallet" in the amount of $449.88 for the purchase of a "Springfield Armory Gun"…
After a smashing day at the show yesterday, Wednesday, official Day 2 started a bit slower- mostly centered around more sleep and big food before going back to the Convention Center. I posted the Day 1 article at what would have ben 330 AM Chicago time, so I needed a…
SHOT Show 2025 kicked off 21JAN25 in Las Vegas with an anticipated audience of 70,000 attendees. The very first show was held in St Louis in 1979. Now only Vegas can hold it. It is enormous. The show is the world's largest firearms trade show, and with U.S. sales of…
So yeah, I spent Inauguration Day shooting all the latest guns and ammo at the Boulder Rifle & Pistol Club in Nevada the day before SHOT Show 2025 opens at the annual Industry Day at the Range. How great is that? Well, great for me anyway. It was below 0…
